Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for… — Nobu Matsuhisa Copy Share Image
Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I shall be glad to see thee back, daughter, for I miss thee dreadfully. I wish I did not! I was taking… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings! — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success.… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to give up crisps,… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
I have precognitive dreams such as the year my brother's apartment caught fire and he lost everything. I'd dreamt it two months… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
